Nahum Chapter 1 Part 4

Na'hum. (consolation). Nahum, called "the Elkoshite," is the seventh, in order, of the Minor Prophets. His personal history is quite unknown. 

The name refers back to Yahweh's compassion connected with Jonah's mission eighty-seven years before. The name Nahum is an abbreviated form of the name Nehemiah, which means “Comfort of Yahweh.”

What is the purpose of this book? The book of Nahum is devoted exclusively to the announcement of the destruction of the city of Nineveh; the prophecy gave hope to the people of Judah who had long been terrorized by Assyria’s constant and ominous threat

Before I get into this study, I continue with our study on what the Capital Building is all about. Was the Capital design to be a Temple set up by the founders of the New World Order?  

In our last study we stopped at verse 13 with Yahweh’s Judgments being foretold.

Beginning with verse 9 and going to 3:19 we see Yahweh’s Judgment Foretold

 1:9-12 -. Destruction of Nineveh. 
  1:12-15. Deliverance of Judah. 
  2:1 - 3:19. Destruction of Nineveh.

14    And Yahweh hath given a commandment concerning thee = This is directed to Sennacherib king of Assyria, as the Targum expresses it; and signifies the decree of Yahweh concerning him, what he had determined to do with him, and how things would be ordered in Providence towards him, agreeably to his design and resolution:

no more of thy name, &c. = : i.e. the dynasty of Nineveh should end. This is not to be understood that he should have no son and heir to succeed him; for Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead, 2Kings 19:37

out of the house of thy gods/elohims will I cut of the graven image and the molten image =  called "the house of Nisroch his god/elohim", 2Kings 19:37; where he was slain; and some say that after that it ceased to be a place of worship, being polluted with his blood.

make = make [it]: i.e. "the house of thy gods". 

grave = sepulchre. Hebrew. keber. 

vile = despicable.

15    Behold. = Figure of speech Asterismos, for emphasis, calling attention to the reference to Isa. 52:7, the hypothetical second Isaiah, 100 years before he is supposed by modern critics to have lived. 

Behold upon the mountains = Of the land of Israel, as the Targum; or those about Jerusalem:

Mountains = in many places throughout the Bible, speak prophetically of the nations/seats of government.

the wicked. = Hebrew [the man of] Belial.  

Chapter 2

The last two chapters of Nahum contain a vision of Nineveh's fall by Babylon’s hands, a series of six insults mocking Nineveh, and then a sarcastic funeral song celebrating the great city’s termination. 

Nahum’s six insults are simple. Assyria used to be the hunter, but they will become the hunted (Nahum 2:13). Nineveh was built with blood, and so to blood it will return (Nahum 3:1, 3). Nineveh has acted like a whore, so soon her charms will be exposed (Nahum 3:4, 5b). Assyria once brutally overthrew the Egyptian city of Thebes (Nahum 3:8), but soon the same violence they inflicted will come back to haunt them (Nahum 3:10). And finally, just as they once conquered and consumed like locusts (Nahum 3:16), they will soon disappear like locusts (Nahum 3:17). There is no good news for Nineveh. Their destruction is inevitable. So Nahum sings a funeral song describing Nineveh's soldiers on the run and gasping for breath (Nahum 3:18). The whole earth then applauds Nineveh's downfall because, as Nahum asks, “Who on earth has not experienced Nineveh’s evil” (Nahum 3:19)?

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